"Web technologies bring some advantages in the software life cycle, mainly distribution."
Very succint. Not to deprecate a great technical development over the years, that makes even complete non techies capable of using the computer, which desktop GUI does not enable easily, applet was a compromise but did not scale well. But its an overkill fed into enterprise mainstream, which actually do have IT depts and ability to manage an automated client update/ installations. Server side of the web tech is great and should be the mainstay for a re-imagined desktop client and bring back iPad like UI experience to the desktop, tablet et als. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 22.02.2012 um 10:34 schrieb Janko Mivšek: > > > S, Christoph Wysseier piše: > > > >> Stéphane Ducasse: > > > >>> I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and > >>> others works (for iPad = $$$$) is important. > > > >> Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets > >> and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be > >> far more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies > >> also in this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own > >> strategy I do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for > >> the development of such applications. > > > > I agree completely that web based techologies are where we should go > > because we have advantage here with Smalltalk while for any kind of GUI > > we are off. > [stuff deleted] > > I like Smalltalk the language for its orthogonality and power. If I hear a > statement > like "we should go <enter hype term here> because its the future!" I have > the feeling > that somebody wants some followers on his or her main area of interest. > > Web technologies bring some advantages in the software life cycle, mainly > distribution. > But they put additional burden in the GUI development because it's more > complicated than traditional GUI's. > Thus, you'll need a bigger user base for your application to make it worth > the additional efforts in development. > Additionally there are some areas where web GUI didn't catch up with > traditional GUI's at all. > > Regards > Andreas
